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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1995
Bengt-ANG.ke Henriksson, Svangsta, SE;
ABU AB, Svangsta, SE;
Abstract
A bail mechanism in an open-face fishing reel of the fixed-spool type having a rotor and a line spool which is coaxial with the rotor and oscillates in the axial direction, has a bail for winding a line onto the line spool. By means of two mounting elements, the bail is mounted on two attachments disposed diametrically opposite each other on the rotor. The bail is pivotable about a bail axis perpendicular to the axis of the rotor, between a folded-in line-winding position and a folded-out position, in which the bail is released of the line. A holder, which is fixed to the bail at one end thereof, is connected to one of the mounting elements. A shaft is provided between the holder and this mounting element. A line roller having a circumferential line-guiding groove in its outer circumferential surface, is mounted on the shaft so as to guide the line when being wound onto the line spool. The shaft has a radially projecting, circumferential bead, on which the line roller is mounted and which is so designed that the line roller is tiltable in relation to the shaft about an axis perpendicular thereto.